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There had never been a sighting of a megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) before the first specimen was caught, quite by accident, in 1976.

He stared at her grimly; he had never been certain how fond of each other the sisters were in life.

This time they went on till they reached the thickest and densest part of the forest, where they had never been before in all their lives.

She suddenly thought of her husband, who had left her and their childrenbehind, and had never been heard of.

After another long walk he came to a plain dirt road, which led through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed.

There before my eyes the bridge shimmered and disappeared as if it had never been visible in the first place.

One experienced headhunter told me she had never been asked for a lawyer to fill a board vacancy.

In Scotland the seeds of truth scattered by Columba and his co laborers had never been wholly destroyed.

Her moral communications with him had never been sufficiently intimate to counteract the effect.

As he had never been there before, he found a great deal to interest him.

Near by there stood an ancient forest which had never been profaned by the axe.

He had never been away from home before: so his mother watched him go with some misgivings.

A self-proclaimed recluse, he had lived in voluntary exile ever since "the war, " although which war had never been specified.

The "Opinionator" worked really well. It was simple and easy to understand, even for people who had never been in a virtual environment.

Growing up poor had never been easy, but somehow I managed to live my life around it.

The business, his work, that was gone entirely, his public interests has disappeared as if they had never been.

Until a few months ago, there had never been a property tax in China.

"I work now for Blake Bailey, " he said. "The pay's not so good. " He added that he had never been as truthful with anyone before.

Mr Clarkson claimed there had never been any public right of way across the land.

and she thought he looked a little confused as he answered that he had never been so fortunate as to meet Miss Bennet.

Harry had never been inside Filch's office before; it was a place most students avoided.

Amelia Earhart has inspired generations of women to do things that had never been done by women before.

His knife, which had never been used to gut anything but fish, was thrown in the river for fear it would incriminate him.

It had never been done before because it was physically impossible!

"The co-production treaty had existed about 10 years but had never been used, " said Emile Sherman, one of the producers.

The enthusiasm for a cash gift had never been this high, and represented a societal shift.

So we started thinking, what if instead of copying the classics with a new spin, the original films had never been made?

I had never been on a fishing boat before and was captivated by the speed and grace in which it jutted through the waves.

I wanted to explain that doing laundry abroad had never been quite so much fun.

It was obvious that the matter had never been paid attention to.

The enemy were determined to wipe the town off the map as if it had never been.

She had never been regular in her monthlies, and she was probably less so now, with the excitement.

the Mandalorian Death Watch was the most feared army in the universe at the time, and had never been defeated.

He said that as far as he knew, the fish had never been inspected for safety.

Many of the procedures we tried had never been used before on an active explosive volcano .

I had never been away from my family so the thought of being this far for this long was a big decision.

The selected runs will be deleted as if they had never been run.

He said he had never been there, but he was lying.

Paul had brought with him not only Barnabas, but Titus also (v. 3), a Christian Greek, who had never been circumcised.

John said he had never been so angry.

She claimed that her husband had never been interested in having sex with her, even during the early years of their marriage.

Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.

Some years ago I took a freighter from San Francisco to Japan, and I had never been there, it was the early '80's.

He knew that he hadn't finished university. That didn't matter so much to Jack. He himself had never been very good at school.

However, during the two years of living in Austria, I visited many places with my honey, just only the Hallstatt we had never been.

The summit was the prize they sought, especially if it had never been attained before.

Last October we sailed into a remote part of Mozambique only to discover a huge sand dune that had never been paraglided before.

No one suspected that there might be someone else on the farm who had never been seen.

To my surprise, there, as if it had never been removed, stood the old pickle jar, the bottom already covered with coins.

That had never been his goal, such an ambition would have been a "disrespect" to his benefactor and his benefactor's blood family.

Among all the rubbish, they found credit cards, money, a laptop computer and jewelry that had never been opened.

If the $190, 000 had never been paid, he would have been importuned by his creditors.

I had never been more joyful for my daughter in law who was just like a daughter to me.

The five men, who had heard of elephants but had never been close to one, asked the rider to allow them to touch the great animal.

I would never have realized any single one of these things if I had never been fervent in pursuing my growth, my goals and interests.

She was widowed when they met again, and he had tried to help her find a job in the city, but she had never been his mistress.

A registered Democrat for most of his life, Dwyer had never been politically active, beyond simply voting.

He burned the bodies of the bandits, and when that was done, it was almost as though she had never been there.

Although she recognized her boss's voice, in fifteen years she had never been awoken by him.

Silas had never been here, but he felt a rising sense of refuge and asylum ashe approached the building on foot.

I had never been able to talk to others, and I had to guess at their meanings and motives.

she had never been able to save much from her salary.

The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment.

Mr. Kuo added that music search was profitable but had never been a source of major traffic.

"It had never been done before, and it was an obvious thing to do, " he said.

Until yesterday he had never been far from home, except for one trip to Aberdeen. Mr.

as a result, they cannot be found again and become as inaccessible as if they had never been discovered.

In 64 years there had never been a CEO from a local council -- they were always from the outside -- so I was very sure it was not serious.

That's why it was so astonishing when I decided to go to my hallway closet to retrieve a revolver that had never been used.

If i need a brain transplant, I'd choose yours because I'd want a brain that had never been used.

As the credit crisis deepened, Mr. Bernanke urged Fed officials to devise proposals that had never been tried before.

There had never been a penalty shootout at the World Cup that did not involve a European side until this game.

He was typical in that he had never been out of Tibet and was utterly innocent of international affairs.

Nolan and many of his colleagues had never been on strike, but they made beds out of cardboard on the chilly shopfloor and dug in.

What if classic films like 'The Godfather' or 'Star Wars' had never been made and had to be cast for the first time, today?

He protested that he had never been near the scene of the crime.

I missed the crocuses, but my life was busier than ever, and I had never been much of a gardener.

The goal was to make this aprosperous, integral part of London in a way it had never been.

and Harry sat down on the edge of his seat, looking around. He had never been in a wizard house before.

until a few months ago, it had never been attempted.

Until then he had never been away from the security of his family and tribe. But on this night he was blindfolded and taken miles away.

Until confronted by Western imperialism, China might have faced military conquests , but Chinese civilization had never been under attack.

And the masses would take that as a confirmation that it had never been so bad as the warners did tell.

Tom led us on to believe that he was a world traveller, but we found out that he had never been outside of our state.

Mr. Halter had never been permitted to question him, nor had Mr. Castro-Wright's computer files been examined, records and interviews show.

I had never been kissed, nor did I understand the tactics to get as far as she had gone with a boy.

A good feasibility study would have proved that the policy was totally wrong, but that had never been done.

The strain had been detected in isolated human cases before but had never been associated with an outbreak.

Besides, diisobutyl phthalate had never been found in the studies of the Schisandra Chinensis.

HSBC and Standard Chartered, whose businesses are more internationally focused, had never been expected to take part.

A good feasibility study would have proved that the policy was totally wrong, but that had never been done.

The strain had been detected in isolated human cases before but had never been associated with an outbreak.

Besides, diisobutyl phthalate had never been found in the studies of the Schisandra Chinensis.

HSBC and Standard Chartered, whose businesses are more internationally focused, had never been expected to take part.

The economic evaluation in selection of design standards for waterlogging control had never been proceeded all over the county.

It always surprised him that she could laugh in spite of the constant pain from her hip that the doctors had never been able to fix.

Just as you drank on my holy hill, so all the nations will drink continually; they will drink and drink and be as if they had never been.

I had never been before and with such summits as the Eiffel Tower on offer it just had to be done.

She had never been out of the house all winter.

Every time when I was with you, sleeping always came late, for the vision of you had never been too much for me.

Peter was the black sheep. His class had never been praised because of his misconduct in school.

Every time when I was with you, sleeping always came late, for the vision of you had never been too much for me.

But if none of this existed and the original story had never been made into a major motion picture, how would it all shake down?

Mr. Butterworth described a recent day when a sailor who had never been on the boat came along.

Education had never been a priority for the authorities in Northern Rhodesia.

They rowed across the Atlantic, which had never been done before.

the easiest way to the top, because the summit was the prize they sought, especially if it had never been attained before. . .

Sosuke's head popped up from the linoleum, as nonchalant as if he had never been assaulted.

Certainly there had never been a large meeting about this particular one thing.

He was depressed by the coldness of these humans who had never been cold before.

He was depressed by the coldness of these humans who had never been cold before.

Joan had never been able to keep a thing to herself though she was always very incensed if one told her so.

He had never been willing to engage personally in the petty harassment by which this strategy was implemented.

The extent to which slight changes in rainfall could impact on rivers had never been realised.

Though they endured harsh conditions and repeated interrogations, the CIA said the men had never been tortured.

Their traditional way of enjoying their later years, had never been raised the old no problems.

Now it was gone, as though it had never been.

At the time, we may have resented this intruder---but as we grew older, we recognized that the sweetheart had never been ours to begin with.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it suddenly became obvious that the USSR had never been a proper country.

Boyle said that he had never been a jury in any film festival before and he would make no criteria for this year's winning films.

Boyle said that he had never been a jury in any film festival before and he would make no criteria for this year's winning films.

She suddenly thought of her husband, who hand left her and their children behind and had never been heard of.

He had never been away from home before. Every little thing, from washing his socks to getting over loneliness, was a big task.

It had never been a secret that part of our mission at the Mossad was to hunt for Nazi war criminals.

She said this airport had never been used.

We were able to manage the two-legged tie well, Manchester had never been dominating on the pitch.

So why none of us noticed that there had never been such an animal and how could we expect good marks for the incorrect answers?

Perhaps intercourse would prove I was an adult, something I had never been willing to acknowledge.

The two teachers with the children had never been abroad.

The defendant protested that he had never been near the scene of the crime.

Butcher had already set a new time record for the first leg of the trip, and her chances of winning had never been better.

It is strange that, prior to Descartes, the question of knowledge had never been raised.

He is not far from my city and i often go to his city but I had never been to see him.

It applied rigorous analysis and mathematical methodology to the practice of marketing, something that had never been done before.

They didn't find any for sometime until they finally went into an area of the maze where they had never been before: Cheese Station N.

Not really. I took five years of medical education but I had never been a doctor in practice.

She was in a jug for the moment, and liking it extremely; she had never been in a jug before.

It arrived at the top of human ancient civilization, which had never been happend before.

The woman said that her husband's body had never been found. Now she hated the boat and wanted to sell it quickly.

Senior organizers said they had never been involved in such a high-level summit meeting where the outcome was not predetermined.

they would all in a few years be as if they had never been, and she herself grassed down and forgotten.

All these had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. He did not remember.

Until she was 18 she had never been away from her parents.

She was a woman who, one felt, had never been handsome, but now, in middle age, was of distinctly prepossessing appearance.

These two had never been out of the butterbur wood, but they knew that there was a different world out of the forest.

As he had never been an importunate visitor he had had no chance to be offensive.

This was a new pathway into the creation of memories that had never been understood before.

Because he had never been abroad, Cody decided to take a trip to France.

Manet senior had never been impressed by his son attending drawing classes, so this bad news was the final straw.

If there had never been a banking crisis, news that Bob Diamond will take over as chief executive at Barclays would barely deserve comment.

To my amazement, there, as if it had never been removed, stood the old pickle jar, the bottom already covered with coins.

With his distinct surprising endings and familiar characters, O Henry had an instantly recognizable style that had never been seen before.

The extent to which slight changes in rainfall could impact on rivers had never been realized before.

He said that although gene patents had been issued for decades, the patentability of genes had never been examined in court.

She is so remarkable because since gondoliers took to the waterways of Venice in 1094, there had never been a woman among them.

He had never been to China; however, it had always been one of his ambitions.

Neither technique is complicated or new, but the combination of images and ballistics had never been used for launch analyses before.

The specification was large and complex and much of it had never been implemented, not even as a proof of concept.

He said the new virus had never been found in pigs in this country.

But they had never been held at the American military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The last one was "Into the Woods, " and I had never been in a musical before but ended up being cast as "Rapunzel's Prince. "

I had never been more blue, more bored, than for a week before she came.

Apart from that experience, she had never been exposed to an office environment.

He had never been a medical student, yet he was given one of those rare honorary degrees of Doctor of Science.

In a foreign country. Ginny had never been anywhere more exotic than Florida, and nowhere by herself.

The recording company had never been so pleased with any singer. For them , stevie was a real find.

He said he had never been approached by the Crown Prosecution Service or the police.

He said that the personal chemistry between the two of us had never been right.

I had never been spontaneously approached by a publisher and such condescension rather turned my head.

He had never been doing a job more than half a year, so we were disappointed with him.

He besought me to try and clear up a mystery he had never been able to penetrate.

He had never been hunted by a bloodhound nor had he ever seen that brute's unerring instinct baffled by human cunning.

Jordan's demand to have the stripe removed -- which would require restarting production halfway through -- had never been done at Nike.

The radicals tried something that had never been tried before. They tried to remove the president from office.

I was swept out with everyone else, even though my work performance had never been criticized.

Tom acted as if he had never been here before.

A year ago Shyima, who was born in Alexandria, Egypt, closed a chapter in her life she wishes had never been written.

She smiled. Patience had never been one of her strongest attributes.

He had never been the water world, i had not , too.

The city looked like a new that I had never been. Time stopped, well, this is the emotion I have wanted to touch so far.

She had never been the best singer but tonight she was like a flower in full bloom, singing with great passion and intensity.

Although he had never been a foreman before, he soon showed that he was the master.

This village had never been sacked by an enemy, certainly.

She had never been accepted into what was essentially a man's world.

And it was Lang who clasped Wolff's hand and wrist, as if he had never been so happy to see someone.

Don Quixote had once been in love with her, though he had never been brave enough to tell her.

And yet there was an aloofness about him, a way he had of making her feel he had never been enslaved by his beauty.

To my knowledge, a light writing of this size had never been done before.

This had never been achieved to that extent before in computer animation.

He built up a factory which produced things that had never been seen before.

Although he served as a vaccinator in Somalia, he had never been vaccinated.

Traditionally, America had never been prepared for a war.

All the patients had never been treated with chemotherapy for tuberculosis.

he had never been there himself , had only read about the " city of sin " in paperback novels and seen it on prime - time tv.

Carrie thought this over. She had never been on the road.

Neville had never been on a broomstick in his life, because his grandmother had never let him near one.

I had never been so close to a wolf and bison battle.

Rising, young Conservatives had never been afflicted by Imperial nostalgia.

Until 1945 Japan had never been occupied by an enemy.

For young children who had never been on an airplane before, the C-5 seemed like a fearful prospect.

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, declared that France and Britain had never been so close.

She had never been showing interests to anybody then, even when she became more beautiful.

Another way to think about it: the sneezer would have uttered "Neo" even if the film The Matrix had never been made.

Maybe sometimes life is really relentless and you may complain that all your efforts devoted in work had never been paid back.

Prior to this, there had never been any writer who recalled a city so affectionately.

But no bus would ever be the right one, because being a passenger on someone's bus had never been my dream.

But these cars had never been exhibited in showroom of American auto dealers.

Jane's sexual behaviour had never been particularly restrained, even before she met Vadim.

They spend almost every night in the library and had never been able to just take a break and have fun.

He often boasted that he had never been in Washington for as long as a week.

It also provided detailed genetic information about the birds that had never been available.

He had never been there, but he had seen it, once, on a Hudson Bay Company chart.

She said that she had never been to the Great Wall.

Ive began using materials, shapes and colors that had never been seen in the industry before.

Last year for instance, we could have created history by winning the league for the fourth time in a row. It had never been done.

Many were toxic. Some had never been found in swimming pools or in chlorine-treated drinking water.

He translated very quickly, because his spirit had never been so focused and unruffled .

Environment Minister Zhou Shengxian said conflict between development and nature had never been so serious.

He had never been known in his lifetime, he think himself a failure.

He wasn't really a soldier, though, and he had never been good at hating.

Reddy had never been there before and he didn't know just what to make of it.

It had never been printed, and nobody outside the choir had ever seen the music, which was kept carefully guarded.

I loved stories about great explorers and tribes that had never been contacted.

Antonioni made us aware of something quite uncomfortable, something that had never been seen in movies.

Unlike the royals, though, John had never been on a horse before joining the army.

Although Japan is a defeated nation, its head of dragon had never been vibrated before.

Much of the jaw-dropping detail had never been revealed.

However, unlike Ms. Boyle, who claimed she had never been kissed, Buchinger had four wives and 14 children.

Until now, most of the objects had never been on public display outside Russia.

He was convicted under an archaic statute that had never Been repealed.

Mr Landers argued back that he was too far gone by then, and that the government warnings had never been forceful enough.

However, he redoubled his severity, and had never been more exemplary.

I learned that their studies had never been disproved, merely shouted down.

White had never been taken as the color of official robes because of the practice of being the color of mourning dress.

He had never been there before. You never can be sure.

But shortly before the sale, Mr. Jackson sued to prevent it, saying that he had never been given an opportunity to remove personal items.

But what if there had never been any reward? Wouldn't returning her dog be the right thing to do?

They had never been printed. A phonograph record was spinning near a bronze phoenix.

Think about what the world would be like, if these ideas had never been put forth.

But Koro had never been recognized in any surveys of the approximately 150 languages spoken in India.

They built a factory which produced things that had never been seen.

He had never been as tender to her since.

Its authoritativeness had never been higher.

Lots of local residents had never been exposed to computer network.

The days I had never been to the Yellow Mountain, it was no more than a postcard to me.

She had never been there before.

This was unexpected, as I knew Luganovitch very little, only officially, and I had never been to his house.

Williams could also show why a memristor had never been seen before.

I used to think that I had never been dumped.

The Smiths said that they wanted to go where they had never been .